g with a drone or from towers or you could put some electronic sensors there, if anybody tries to cross you just send out your border patrol and they just pick them up, right?

So there's nobody here who disagrees with the general concept that the engineers and the experts should make the decision. We want a solution that's humane but it also has to work. You know who has that plan? Probably Democrats do. You know how similar that would look to the Republican plan? Probably not that different by the time it's done. But it would give everybody a reason to move forward.

So again, that's not my prediction of what the president will do. I will say with some confidence it would be the best thing to do. I'm completely confident about that part. But here's what to watch for: watch for the president avoiding the problem of negotiating with himself one way or another. That's his biggest challenge, right? At the end of this, the president can't have a win and can't even have a good path forward if at the end of this the enemy is saying well it looks like they tricked him into negotiating with himself. He's not much of a negotiator, is he?

So it could be that all he's going to do is throw some variables into the mix. So he might say here are the other variables. Here's how we want to approve workers. Here's what I want to do with H-1B visas. Here's what I want to do with path to citizenship and DACA and all that stuff. So it might be that he's just adding variables. Now that would not be a case of negotiating with yourself because I've often said if you have an impasse, oftentimes the only way you can get past an impasse is by adding variables. You need extra stuff to make a deal. So he may just be adding extra stuff and that would be perfectly fine, would not be a case of negotiating with himself per se because he probably wouldn't offer anything that hasn't already been on the table before.

All right, here's an update on the question of open borders. So there was yet another article in the New York Times by someone who said yeah, let's think about open borders because of their economic benefits. And I want to give you just a little bit of a tour, a very short one, of open borders. Now there are people who argue, and they have good economic arguments, so on a conceptual level, just a conceptual level, not a practical level, but on a conceptual level open borders actually make sense. Wait for the practical part before you throw up in your mouth, okay? If it's just a thought experiment and you're saying well in a perfect world open borders, because the argument is the free flow of labor and everything else is just always good. Basically it's an argument for capitalism and freedom. And whenever you have better capitalism and better freedom you almost always get a good result, right? So on a conceptual level, open borders, totally conceptually reasonable thing.

Unfortunately we don't live in a conceptual world. We have to survive in the real world. And in the real world the countries that are next to you are not equal on all variables. Their economy could be in the toilet. They could have more crime, for example. I'm not saying that's the case, but there could be a terrorism risk. Some people have a terrorism risk, some don't. Maybe the other countries have loose requirements about who gets into their country which would be a pathway for anybody else to get into the country. And then the biggest variable is if there's a country that has lots of social services, let's say free health care, your retirement, whatever else, and they're next to a country that doesn't, how's that work out? Wouldn't all the people in the country that doesn't give them free stuff stand up and start walking toward the country that does? Right now the number of people who come in from Mexico is putting some people think a burden on the employment of the citizens, and that's with all the effort we can put into reducing the number coming in. What would happen if that number, what happens if it's 20 million people a year? Where do they live? Do they live on the street? Do they make camps on the roads? Do they clean up after themselves? From a practical perspective.

Let me put it another way. Open borders probably is a really good solution for countries that are largely similar. The more similar the countries, the more open borders makes perfect sense. Because let's say you're France and Germany or something, and I don't know if this is the case, but let's say that they have similar social services and let's say they're both similar targets for terror attacks and anything else. Well it kind of doesn't matter that much, right? The terrorists are already